Rebellious, cool-headed girl x obsessive, twisted bad boy
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When Li Xingran was eight, Li Qiaolin came to live with her family and became her older brother.
Li Qiaolin's face was as cold and arrogant as his temperament. He looked down on everyone and treated every rule as beneath him.
At first, he treated Li Xingran like she was invisible, too. But she gradually realized that her freedom existed only within the bounds of having her brother around, and those bounds kept shrinking.
At first, she chalked up his extreme possessiveness to an older brother's protectiveness.
That was until one day after the college entrance exams. She came out of the shower to find Li Qiaolin sitting at the computer in her room.
On the screen were her search engine records.
- How to find someone handsome, clean, and good in bed...
Li Xingran felt her blood rush to her head. Before she could even ask why he was using her computer, Li Qiaolin spoke first, his expression blank.
"Am I handsome?"
Li Xingran froze for a moment. "Yeah."
"Am I clean?"
"Yeah."
"Then wouldn't it make more sense to come to your brother?"
Li Xingran thought he was just saying it out of anger. In open defiance, she pointed at the last two words.
Li Qiaolin curled his lip coldly. "Why don't you find out for yourself?"
Only then did Li Xingran realize he was serious.
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Li Xingran resolved to stay away from her twisted, awful brother.
The day she tricked him into setting off for America to find her, she took her admission letter and quietly left Luobei, going to Yilin University with her high school crush.
But she never expected Li Qiaolin to come back and haunt her like a ghost.
Later, when her crush came to confess to her, Li Xingran looked toward the tall, lean figure beneath the camphor trees in the distance, watching her gloomily, and finally spoke in a calm voice.
"Sorry. My brother won't let me like anyone else."
[Bonus Scene]
On the night of Li Xingran's eighteenth birthday, Li Qiaolin sat by the bed, watching his sleeping sister, and gently fastened an anklet around the ankle she had stretched over the edge of the bed.
A shooting star gleamed in the darkness.
It was the coming-of-age gift he had prepared for her, and proof of his decision to keep her firmly by his side.
#My sister can only have me by her side#
Video game concept artist x programmer
Reader's Guide
1. The leads have a two-year age gap and are not related by blood. Before they marry, they are not registered in the same household.
2. No intimate behavior before adulthood.
3. The story begins around the college entrance exams. Much of it takes place at university, with a modest ensemble cast.
4. The younger sister is genuinely rebellious, and the older brother is genuinely messed up.
5. The author's uninhibited indulgence in their personal tastes. If it's not for you, feel free to stop reading.
Theme: Grow up well
